The JOY Broadcast

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Kimberly Parsons, naturopath, author of The Yoga Kitchen cookbooks (has been one of my favourites for over a decade!), and founder of Naturalli, the app helping women eat in sync with their hormones. If you've ever felt afraid of food, confused by conflicting advice, or just exhausted by trying to figure out what your body actually needs,  this episode is for you.
Kimberly and I talk about her journey from a childhood spent in her nonna's Italian kitchen garden in Melbourne, to an accidental career as a private chef in the Alps, to building a business dedicated to helping women understand the deep, beautiful link between food, joy, and hormonal health.
In this episode
Kimberly's story: growing up surrounded by food in an Italian household, and the winding path from naturopathy to private cheffing to hormone health
Why food has always been Kimberly's "home for joy" — and how it can be yours too
What "whole food" really means, and why we've overcomplicated something so simple
A crash course in naturopathy — treating the whole body as an interconnected system, not a set of separate symptoms
Why so many women fear food, and how to rebuild a relationship with eating that feels like pleasure instead of punishment
Raising kids who aren't picky eaters — Kimberly's approach to feeding her own family whole, unprocessed food
The hormone hierarchy: how insulin and cortisol quietly run the show for estrogen and progesterone
Why your first and second cycle halves need completely different plates (and what to eat when)
How to eat with your hormones in mind even if you're not currently cycling — using the moon as your guide
Brain fog, big decisions, and why perimenopause hits women at the exact moment life demands the most from them
Inside the Naturally app — how it takes the guesswork out of eating for your hormones, day by day
Why women are so wildly different from men, biologically — and why that's something to celebrate, not fight against
Kimberly's mission, in her own words: every woman should be able to advocate for herself and make empowered, informed decisions about her hormones  but she can't do that without the education most of us were never given.
Connect with Kim: 
Substack: https://naturallihormones.substack.com/
IG: @_kimberlyparsons_
Website: www.naturalli.me
Email: kim@naturalli.me 
Link to the app download: https://heroracle.gcph.tv/

Link to my FREE Hormone Harmony Check-In - for women who want my expert opinion and clarity.
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In this episode, Ali sits down with 'joy rebel' Sue to talk about the years that took her from a high-pressure corporate career to becoming a performance coach via grief, a global pandemic, and a breast cancer diagnosis she wasn't expecting.
In this episode:
Sue first connected with Ali's meditations back in 2020, during the depths of the pandemic, when she was living in Cheltenham but separated from her family in North Manchester. She talks honestly about what it was like when work and home collapsed into the same four walls and how meditation, horse riding and running became her way of staying grounded.
In early 2021, Sue's family contracted COVID, and she lost her brother-in-law suddenly. Unable to be with her sister or attend the funeral because of lockdown restrictions, Sue found her way through by starting a gratitude journalling practice something she and Ali dig into together, with a nod to Brené Brown and Liz Gilbert along the way.
That loss became a turning point. Sue left her permanent corporate role and trained as a performance coach, eventually building a private client base alongside part-time corporate work.
2024 brought a run of good things training for SEMA, a tenth wedding anniversary trip, and a solo wellness retreat in Formentera, Ibiza. It also brought an unexpected discovery: a concerning finding during a mammogram follow-up while she was away, which led to biopsies and, in October 2024, a diagnosis of early-stage but aggressive breast cancer.
Sue takes us through the eighteen months that followed; starting chemotherapy just over two weeks after diagnosis, the emotional and logistical weight of treatment, and how she kept herself steady by honouring her emotions rather than pushing them down, and by staying grateful for the small things: being able to move, being able to eat, being surrounded by people who showed up for her.
Treatment concluded this May. Sue is now taking the summer to consider what's next but she knows project management isn't part of it, but coaching and a search for what genuinely brings her joy are.
Sue's closing message: don't wait for the "right time" to pursue what makes you happy.
Connect with Sue on LinkedIn here
 
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This week Ali is joined by Sally, a Joy Rebellion VIP member and someone she first connected with through a shared love of Feng Shui, before meeting in person at Mani-FEST in 2025. Sally shares her story across three decades of work, complementary therapy, midwifery, public health, Feng Shui, and now training as a coach, and the common thread running through all of it, supporting people through change.
They talk about the year Sally moved to France with a six month old, the loneliness she didn't see coming, and the decision to move back to the UK, one she once saw as failure and now recognises as one of the first times she truly listened to herself. They talk about midwifery, about what it means to hold space for someone else's biggest transitions, and about the eighteen months Sally has spent putting herself back at the top of her own list.
Ali and Sally also get into the sandwich decades, the mental load of ageing parents alongside children who are technically grown but still need you, and what Ali now calls 'joy nesting' rather than empty nesting. 
Sally shares her Human Design, a line three five, the trial and error, the rebel who takes a framework and makes it her own. And she leaves listeners with two small, powerful practices, opening the front door each morning to let stagnant energy out and good energy in, and scheduling a two minute reset into your day.
Find the guest
Sally is at the very start of her new venture, Space to Nurture, helping women create space within themselves and within their homes. Follow along and cheer her on. → Instagram: space.to.nurture

This Week's Joy Invitation: 
Sally is a member of Joy Rebellion as a VIP, VIP Joy Rebellion | Lock in joy with someone in your corner. £3,000 for 12 months | or £333 a month
Everything in the Joy Rebellion, plus a monthly one-to-one session that is Just On You. Your patterns, your blocks, your wins, your next move. The community holds you and I hold you too. Be a VIP REBEL here. 

The Joy Rebellion | Lock in joy with connection &  community. £222 for 12 months | or £22 a month
This is the community. The place you come to every week, every month, every time life asks you to practise what you have learned here. Inside the Joy Rebellion you will find a full library of courses to binge at your own pace, Life-flix style, plus weekly personalised coaching inside a community of women who are done with survival mode and building from joy instead. Twelve months to claim joy as your way of life, not just a feeling you stumble into occasionally. Join the Joy Rebellion here.
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This week I am joined by a woman I have known for almost a decade and who I consider one of the wisest people in my world. Kay Manby has lived more chapters than most of us will in a lifetime. A young marriage that did not survive. Eight years raising three children alone. A second marriage to the love of her life. And then watching that love, Jim, go through cancer.
What Kay has built from that loss is extraordinary. She trained as a yoga teacher in her sixties, taught women in probation, qigong, became a celebrant who has sat beside the dying and written the words spoken at their funerals. She talks in this episode about fear as a driver rather than an enemy, about grief taking the ground out from under you, and about a stranger in a taxi who once told her every new day is a blank piece of paper.
We talk about her five one Manifestor profile and what it means to work in bursts rather than constantly. About amateur dramatics at nearly seventy and the buzz of doing the thing that terrifies you. And about her simple, powerful message for anyone listening. Notice beauty everywhere. Love generously. Live gently. Laugh often.
This is a conversation to come back to again and again.
Find Kay
Website: https://www.lovekay.co.uk/
Podcast: The K Manby Podcast : https://www.lovekay.co.uk/podcast
Instagram: @lovekayuk  

Join the Rebels in the Joy Rebellion
Kay is one of the wonderful women inside the Joy Rebellion. If her story moved you, come and find your own community of women who will encourage you to see the light in your own darkness. → Join the Joy Rebellion here
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The Lionsgate Portal Meditation
The final part in Ali's three part series on dreaming again. 
This episode is a guided meditation, recorded a few years ago for Ali's Devoted mastermind, and returned to every year for the Lionsgate portal. Where the last two episodes were about the practical work, the telescope, the compass, head, heart, soul, self, this one hands it over to the heart. No thinking, no figuring it out, just opening up and letting the images, ideas and whispers come through in their own time.
Ali releases this on the 7th of August so it's ready for when the Lionsgate portal is it's most powerful on the 8th. The energy runs through to the New Moon in Leo on the 12th, so use it once, or come back to it every day through that window, whichever feels right.
You can do this lying down, sitting, walking, or resting. (Just not while driving.)
How to use it
Place a hand on your heart if that helps you drop in. Let go of trying to force a vision, this isn't about picturing what you've already planned, it's about letting your heart show you something new. If nothing comes during the meditation itself, don't worry, the ideas often land later. In the shower, on the walk home, right as you're falling asleep.
Joy Rebellion Close
If dreaming again is where you're at, this is exactly the kind of work Ali leads members through inside the Joy Rebellion, all year round, not just under a Lionsgate portal. → THE JOY REBELLION
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